The head of the search and rescue team for AirAsia flight QZ8501 which disappeared while flying from Surabaya’s Juanda International Airport, Indonesia to Singapore on Sunday, revealed to Channel News Asia that search operations are confined to the Banga island, Belitung island and Lang Teng island, which are the areas most likely to contain wreckage from the aircraft, based on where it was last in contact with ground control. Indonesian officials reported there were 162 passengers on board.
The Belitung island is an area where fishermen claimed they had heard objects hit the island. A source told the Indonesian authorities that they saw a plane crash on Sunday. However, there is no formal confirmation from the concerned authority yet. Rescue teams featuring three helicopters, three airplanes, 11 vessels and several more fishing boats were gathered to prepare for the search of the missing aircraft.
Staff at the search and rescue team assumed and assessed, using the latest information source with consideration for different surrounding factors, that there is a possibility that the jet airliner might have sunk and it is at the bottom of the sea.
Meanwhile, officials in Indonesia added further that after disappearing from the radar and losing contact with air traffic control over ten hours, it is highly likely that the aircraft might have met with an accident.
An Indonesian Army spokesperson made a statement during a press conference earlier today, saying that the Army had sent five search planes to search for the missing aircraft, particularly around the eastern and northern sides of the Belitung Island. “Weather conditions in some areas are very cloudy but that is not an obstacle,” he said. Meanwhile, the Australian Air Force had even sent search planes from Darwin city, northern Australia early this morning on a search mission.
Moreover, the U.S., China and South Korea have also offered assistance in this search mission.
After multiple violent riots demanding a higher minimum working wage, garment workers in Cambodia struggle to make ends meet, and continue to work to get more attention focused on their plight.
Last December, five people were killed as a result of clashes with police in Phnom Penh, the site of many of the country’s garment and textile factories In Cambodia alone, there are thought to be over 620,000 workers in 960 garment and footwear factories, where at least 91 percent are female. The current minimum wage is $100 per month; however, the workers are demanding at least $177, which is the average monthly spending amount of the workers.
Bent Ghert, of Workers Rights Consortium, says that at the current wage workers find it near impossible to survive, and must live in rooms hardly large enough for a single person. “We can observe that most workers live in small, 4×4 rented rooms here in Cambodia… which cost on average $25 a month.” In order to make it easier to pay the rent, the workers usually have to live with others, such as a friend or family member.
Mr. Ghert went on to say that the worker generally sends a portion of their pay back to their village in the countryside, from where the majority of them come. This makes it even more difficult to make ends meet. “They also have to send back money for their family or siblings who are still in school. The minimum they send is $17, (as it) makes no sense to send less then that.”
After these expenses, the worker is left with little to purchase food. This, in addition to long working hours, helps contribute to the onset of extreme fatigue and diseases like anemia, which results from low iron blood levels. A recent study found that the average worker in these factories spends $1.30 on food daily. With cheap, low caloric food to sustain them, Jill Tucker of the International Labor Organization says that it’s not surprising that the health of the workers is severely compromised. “Anemia and food insecurity can contribute to wide ranging health problems for workers. Anemia often leads to chronic fatigue, concentrating difficulty and low productivity. Addressing these anemia levels will be complex, but is key to improving productivity and business outcomes in the garment sector.”
Srey Na, a garment worker in Phnom Penh, says that she has little choice but to continue working for the current wages. “I work one full day and (then) half a morning. I don’t want to work so much, but I receive money. So I work. If I don’t take this opportunity I will have difficulties.”
It has been the Western, pro-EU, pro-NATO camp that has trumpeted its supposed devotion to the defense of democracy when discussing the Euromaidan protests of late 2013 and their fallout. What made many skeptical of their claims of being champions of democracy from the beginning was their open support for the use of force to overthrow a democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. It would seem that usurping Yanukovych’s power violated the Ukrainian constitution. What was Yanukovych’s crime in the eyes of the West? Choosing to seek closer economic ties for Ukraine with Russia instead of signing an Association Agreement with the EU.
In the West, those who spoke of the possible inconsistencies of the pro-Euromaidan side were mostly drowned out in major news outlets. Major publications like Time Magazine had been sounding anti-Vladimir Putin alarms long before Euromaidan even took place. The Euromaidan and Russia’s annexation of Crimea sent Western media into what appeared to be nearing full bore panic mode. Perhaps most memorable was The Economist magazine’s over-the-top “Putin’s Inferno” cover. Hackneyed clichés about Putin being a 21st century Adolf Hitler were being used widely. The fact that it was the anti-Russian side that used violent means to overthrow a democratically elected leader, or that the majority of Crimeans were in favor of a reunion with Russia, did not stop the vilification of Putin and his supporters.
More than a year has now passed since the Euromaidan. In addition to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, we’ve seen a bloody civil war break out in eastern Ukraine between the pro-Russian separatists of the east (where Yanukovych had gotten the majority of his electoral support) and the Ukrainian army, taking orders from the newly installed Kiev government. This new government is generally supported by the people of western Ukraine, or at least preferred to the previous government. New elections held in May made Petro Poroshenko the president.
While the Euromaidan, the annexation of Crimea, and the Ukrainian Civil War are all major news stories in their own right, they are also part of a bigger picture geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West that some worry could be as serious as setting the foundation of a third World War. While the anti-Russia, anti-Putin sentiment is still very strong in the West’s ruling class, some notable voices of dissent have been making themselves heard. In a December 20th article in the British newspaper The Daily Mail entitled “Forget ‘evil’ Putin–we are the bloodthirsty warmongers,” English journalist and author Peter Hitchens writes,
“Now I seem surrounded by people who actively want a war with Russia, a war we all might lose. They seem to believe that we are living in a real life Lord Of The Rings, in which Moscow is Mordor and Vladimir Putin is Sauron.”
He goes on to write, “Until a year ago, Ukraine remained non-aligned between the two great European powers. But the EU wanted its land, its 48 million people (such a reservoir of cheap labour!) its Black Sea coast, its coal and its wheat. So first, it spent £300 million (some of it yours) on anti-Russian ‘civil society’ groups in Ukraine. Then EU and Nato politicians broke all the rules of diplomacy and descended on Kiev to take sides with demonstrators who demanded that Ukraine align itself with the EU.”
It is voices like these that are challenging the West’s liberal elite’s claims to be the guardians of democracy. Recent news out of Sweden (an EU member since 1995) will be bound to raise even more questions about the intentions of pro-EU liberals. On Saturday, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced the cancellation of the upcoming elections, in which the Sweden Democrats (a political party) were expected to make large gains. The cancellation came after the “center-left” and “center-right” parties came to a bargain on a budget, and is an obvious effort to isolate the up-and-coming Sweden Democrats. One cannot help but notice that many among the West’s liberal establishment only seem to support democracy when they agree with the voters’ decisions.
Education is a key factor in the development of any nation and so is it in Kenya too. However, despite the fact that Education is key in developing any state, the plight of teachers remains unattended to for now over a decade. In a recent move, The Kenya National Union of Teachers has called upon students and pupils to remain at home come Jan. 5. The Union has called for a nationwide strike come January if the Government does not honor its agreements.
The Union has warned the government to ensure the enumerations are enhanced and have issued a seven day notification to the government. At the Unions’ headquarters, Secretary General Mr. Wilson Sossion insisted that payment allowances have to be honored. Indeed, over the years, teachers’ boardroom meetings with the government have bore no fruits in having them well remunerated. The union has accused the Salaries and Renumeration Commission of being an impediment to their remuneration discussion. The commission has over the recent days increased the salaries of legislators and cabinet secretaries while the teachers’ wages have remained unattended to.
The teachers have held that they will hear nothing from the government and the Teachers Service Commission until the government gives
Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion speaking
in to their demand. They have reiterated their words to play hard ball with demands for their payment hikes. The government is under pressure to put a more favorable deal before the teachers so as to avert the strike. The chairperson of the Union has held that the 7-day strike ultimatum takes effect on Dec. 29 and so the strike will begin on Jan. 5, the day that schools are expected to reopen for yet another term. The strike has however been said to be stoppable if only the teachers’ demands are met.
Indeed, teachers in the country, have faced an uphill task in fighting for their rights. Records put it straight that teachers always have to fight to have their rights issued to them. The streets speak better for them to have the government issue them with their rights. It is indeed noticeable and agreeable to each Kenyan citizen that the teachers always fight hard to get their benefits and possibility that the government listens well to the message of the streets. The constitution gives priority for people to engage in strikes.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers Chairperson, Mr. Nzili, has maintained that teachers have to be protected from the economic distress they are passing through. In a news interview with the Nation Television Network, he said that, “As patriotic Kenyans who support the nation and Govrnmebt, teachers have to be given the hearing and the consideration they require.” He holds the fact that they are prepared to be out of classrooms for as long as it takes for the government to meet their demands. He said that some of the Teachers demands are:
1. To have the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed by the government in accordance with the court order
2. To have their salaries increased; a salary component within the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Mr. Kanit Na Nakorn, the chief of the Law Reform Commission of Thailand (LRCT), who is also in charge of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), pointed out there will be no amnesty for corruption cases and that the junta should pass this bill to the parliament for approval.
Kanit stated his intention in a press conference Thursday to affirm the important basic rights and equality guarantees as stated in the old constitution and that he would like to add or edit important issues–particularly rules and regulations. Moreover, punishment will be imposed on violators, he added. Nonetheless, human rights, freedom and human equality should be respected, as written in the 2007 constitution.
Reform in political structure needs to follow the procedures laid out in the 2007 constitution. “Only important issues need to be addressed,” he reasserted, with the intention to formulate the country’s major policies, not the government’s or political parties’. However, such policies should be implemented, he added.
He explained further that reconciliation should be established on the ground of truth with consideration for the root cause of a particular problem as a move towards reconciliation. Whereas there should be clear and important conditions applied to the provision of amnesty, and it should not be bestowed upon those guilty of corruption charges, serious criminals, and upon whoever offends the monarch, which could disrupt national peace and order, Kanit asserted.
For the cabinet however, it was the view of the LRCT that the formation of the cabinet should remain unchanged in order to elect the prime minister in favor of the House of Representatives.
As for the judicial sector, the Supreme Court should judge on special legal matters, Kanit said. In addition, the Labour Court should be separated from the Court of Justice while the Military Court would be authorized to pass verdict on militaristic criminal cases only.
Hereby, the commission also stated that the martial law should be exercised only when it deems necessary and be proposed to parliament for approval.
The southern African nation of Zimbabwe has too many elephants to deal with, and has announced plans to begin exporting the overflow to other countries that may be better able to provide for the animals.
The first batch of exported elephants has already been discussed. China bought the largest number of elephants at 27. France is taking between 15 and 20 and the United Arab Emirates 15.
“We have 80,000 elephants against a carrying capacity of 42,000 and this is not sustainable in the long run,” Jerry Gotora, chairman of the Zimbabwe parks and wildlife authority, said of the sales, as reported by AFP. “The exports are carefully controlled by CITES. All those making noise about it are people who do not want Zimbabwe to benefit from its resources.”
Due to the costs associated with protecting elephants from poachers, the government of Zimbabwe relies partially on charities and private companies, but even this help has not prevented hundreds of animals from dying at the hands of poachers.
Zimbabwe is home to one of Africa’s biggest elephant populations since formerly-large Eastern and Central African populations have been decimated by poaching.
The illegal trade in ivory is international. Poachers move across borders with near impunity, associated with government and organized crime.
Ivory sales were banned in 1989 by the international body CITES, but since that time, according to the organization, the ban has been continually weakened, and is today considered to sit at roughly the pre-1989 level.
The report found that Zimbabwean poaching was tied to corruption, which is a different problem from the causes of poaching in less stable areas of Africa where there was not sufficient infrastructure to combat poaching.
Known for her ministry The Glory is Here, Hon. Margaret Wanjiru, one of the flashiest preachers in Kenya, is indeed experiencing an uphill task in her political career. The bishop has in the last five years served as a member of parliament and a cabinet minister. The former housing cabinet minister has since decamped from the Orange Democratic Movement party to The National Alliance Party, in which already she is experiencing lots of troubles. Barely two weeks ago, after joining the TNA alliance, we can now report that she is not at peace with her move.
TNA party members have expressed discontent with her and claimed that she is just there to reap from where she did not plant. Indeed the honeymoon period could be over, and she will have to battle it out to be relevant in the party “things.” The Nairobian flashy preacher, upon joining the TNA party, walked to several media stations accusing the ODM of being undemocratic. Funny enough, the party she claims is undemocratic gave her son a nomination ticket and campaigned for him until that son won the parliamentary seat. Margaret Wanjiru has since opened claims into the issue that the ODM party of which she was part during the 2013 elections, refused to sponsor and support her gubernatorial seat, which she lost to the current Nairobi Governor, Dr. Evans Kidero of ODM party.
Even as she claims so, the truth that has been established is that the bishop never had the required papers to become governor. She wasn’t a qualified candidate. It is indeed very funny that the bishop lies with impunity. After the elections she joined St Pauls University, from which one and half year later she graduated with a degree. She, therefore, meets the IEBC threshold to qualify for a governors’ post suppose elections are held today. However, does it mean that education will remain compromised so as to have people and personalities meet their goals and selfish ambitions?
The Jesus is Alive Ministries pastor and bishop has to date not met the president, a month after joining the TNA party despite making several appointments. The several appointments have indeed turned to disappointments and political followers are left to see what comes to play the next time. The flashy Nairobi bishop has since maintained that she will battle it out with other aspirants for Nairobi gubernatorial candidate come 2017. Among her opponents will be the flamboyant Nairobi senator, Hon. Mike Sonko and Nairobi businessman Jimnah Mbaru, who have both vowed to ensure she sinks into political oblivion. Indeed someone could be signing her political oblivion certificate by herself.
Despite declaring interest to battle it out in 2017 with the political heavyweights for the gubernatorial party candidate, political pundits and supporters are left to see if the Glory will be there for the bishop. Even so, the already lit fire could be seen burning for the next few years or it could be extinguished. Hon. Margaret has however held that the fire has to continue burning.
A Tibetan monk self immolated near a police station Tuesday in Tawu, Kham, Tibet, calling for the return of the Dalai Lama, who is considered a criminal separatist in Tibet, and for Tibet to be free of Chinese rule.
Kalsang Yeshe, a man in his late 20s or early 30s, was a monk practicing at Nyitso monastery in the town of Tawu. Prior to the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Nyitso had been a large monastery of around 2,000 monks, but currently only 200 monks practice at the monastery.
The police station near which Kalsang self immolated was recently built near the monastery. Repression of monks and other Tibetans has been particularly severe near Nyitso in recent years, according to Save Tibet.
Reports of the self immolation come by way of exiled Tibetans in India, many of whom cannot return to Tibet for fear of charges under Chinese law for their support of Tibetan autonomy and the Dalai Lama. Communications from within Tibet are rare because such communications are illegal and are severely punished by Chinese authorities.
The self immolation was the third within one week. It is the 136th self immolation within Tibet, and the 142nd known self immolation for the cause of Tibetan freedom.
After the self immolation, armed police removed the body. Locals called for the body to be returned to them in order to preform traditional religious ceremonies.
Kalsang was described by one source who knew him at a monastery in exile as a very hard worker in the cause to protect and preserve Tibetan cultural language and identity.
Following the passing of draconian security laws in Kenya, the opposition has taken things a step further to get to the courts.
The Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (CORD) will this morning be presenting a petition against the parliament’s move to pass draconian laws. The draconian laws in regard to security were passed by the legislative house amidst chaos and brawl. In the petition that was drafted by lawyers allied to the coalition and human rights groups, the coalition is pleading with the judicature to bar and stall the execution of the law citing the fact that it impinges on the rights and exaptation of the citizens.
The opposition’s legal team, which comprises of over thirty qualified lawyers and advocates led by senior counsel Hon. Senator James Orengo, will today get to the Milimani court at 9:00 a.m. Kenyan time. The law indeed wasn’t acted upon in good faith and is possibly a tool which the ruling Jubilee coalition can use to kill political dissent in the country. The bill that president Uhuru signed into law last week has issued more powers to the National Intelligence Service that could possibly bring back the horrific Moi era, which witnessed the abuse of power by the intelligence agency. In all likelihood, the laws could bring to the fore the application of impunity to prevail on the opposition.
The amendment, which was hastily passed in a disorderly parliamentary session as well, imparts the executive much power to manipulate what the media puts out. The media proprietors have as well come strongly to contradict the legal philosophy which they say will obstruct the freedom of the press.
In a deep rejoinder to the topic at hand, the US State Department in its affirmation stated its disappointment in the way the bill was covered. The department said that, “We are disappointed, yet, by the very restricted time permitted for debate and audience on the 2014 Security Laws Amendment Bill anterior to its enactment and passage into law.” The Department as well held that they are worried about the very many provisions in the security law legislation, which include those that feature to restrict the freedom of communication and media, and access to asylum seekers and refugees.”
Nevertheless, in a quick response, the PSCU said in their assertion, “The law is of great importance to Kenya and Kenyans. The State House Communication Unit went ahead to hold that the law is of great importance to Kenyans. The PSCU stated that the Security law is similar to the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act which have helped Americans.”
Despite the opposition’s move to get to the court, Kenyans have cast uncertainty on the success of the petition in the courts. Many Kenyans think that the tribunals may not practice their independence as required but instead will follow orders from the Statehouse. The opposition’s move is also viewed in terms of a fierce legal battles between the ruling coalition and itself. The former prime minister, who is also the coalition’s chief principal, has sent a warning message to the President and told him to be ready for a fierce battle in regards to the draconian bill. The move is anticipated to dwarf the chaotic scenes that decorated the passing of the bill. Hon Raila Odinga as well stated that the opposition will not be intimidated until they save Kenyans from the wrath of the new law.
Does violence have to beget more violence? Are we as progressive humans regressing into creatures that do not comprehend pain and indulge in shock value to keep ourselves prominent? These questions, I believe, need to be answered at the earliest before it is too late to undo any wrongdoings against mankind.
In the last week alone, the world has seen indescribable pain and terror in three isolated incidents. Pakistan, Nigeria and Australia have all been struck by terror. Islamist jihadists whether it is the Taliban, the Boko Haram or the lone radical Man Haron Monis, have wreaked havoc in a way most of us can’t process. Since the attacks, I want to take a look at what reparative measures are being taken to protect the innocent and bring accused to justice.
Let me start by clarifying that no amount of writing about my empathy for the situation can justify the pain the mothers, fathers, siblings, extended family and friends are going through.
Who will be responsible for our security? Photo Flickr/ cricrich
For Pakistan’s latest tragedy comparable to America’s 9/11, #Peshawarkillings is more than just a trending topic on Twitter. Summed up in a # and two words are the lives of 140 children. Children, who are the future of Pakistan. Innocents, who have done nothing to deserve the gory, ignominious death while at school. Apart from home, a child in any part of the world feels safe in a school, and for the 140 a military run school will have been the safest.
Vigils and prayers marked the event, but Pakistan was quick to act. A rather Biblical punishment on those languishing in prison, will be meted out by Pakistan’s top brass. Without any signs of haste, the deadly attack spurred Pakistan to rescind the four-year moratorium on the death penalty. Reports of Pakistan’s plan to execute 55 death row inmates, who have no connection to the Peshawar killings, are now making headlines. On Monday, four prisoners accused of attempting to assassinate ex-President Pervez Musharraf in 2003 and a failed attack on the military in 2009 have already been executed.
Does this justify what happened to the children in Peshawar? I agree, that the inmates have committed crimes, but should they pay for crimes other than those they stand accused of. In an ideal world, that would be a no-no. This decision to execute the 55 inmates on death row is meant to appease a population that is in grief.
Tensions between my motherland and Pakistan are instantly forgotten in the face of this terrorising nightmare. But we’re more than neighbours aren’t we? Shouldn’t a brother guide you when you go astray? The Taliban is threatening to carry out more of these attacks, – on innocents – stage jailbreaks and free more prisoners if Pakistan lived up to its promise. A barter shouldn’t even be entertained here, but in light of what may happen in the future, it is best to keep the ones already captured in prison and concentrate the nation’s resources to finding who is responsible for this heinous crime.
Intensifying the countermilitancy campaign in the trial belt by the Pakistani military is a tactical move, but will only prod the Taliban into retaliating andgiven Pakistan’s history with collateral damage, will either push the surviving into the Taliban or turn to vigilantes.
Helplessness in the face of a survivor. Where are the #girls though? Photo Flickr/European Commission DG ECHO
Since vigilantes came up, this turns my focus to Nigeria. Since 2009, school children, women, the elderly and any non-Muslim in sight has been kidnapped, tortured, raped, burned, and lynched. “Western education is sin,” according to Abubakar Shekau, a proponent of the Shariah law and leader of the Boko Haram, terrorists who kidnapped 200 Christian school girls, none of whom we have heard of since they became #bringourgirlsback on Twitter. Celebrities held up placards with these words, nations had meetings, help poured in but as is evident from the reports in Nigeria, the youth and incapacitated military have had to help themselves. With nothing but sticks, stones and makeshift weapons, the civilian Joint Task Force and women in particular have braved their way through recent tragedies.
The latest report from Nigeria is the mindless assassination of elderly men and others branded “infidels,” at a school in Bama near Gwoza, Nigeria. Why a school, much less the elderly are important questions to ponder on? Why isn’t anyone doing anything about this horror? Vigils and prayers are pouring in but as a nation in pain, nothing is being done in terms of alleviating that sorrow. Yes, there are efforts from vigilantes that can be justified as acts of self-defence, but does more killing reduce that?
Is this enough for the martyrs for who have given up their lives for us? Photo Flickr/Peter Hindmarsh
Sydney is lucky compared to the two third world countries put together. Justice was served in good measure, when the lone gunman was shot, not before he took down two innocents. Again vigils and prayers filled Martin Place, but the unprecedented coverage the siege received shows that terror big or small affects us in ways we cannot imagine. Protective measures are warranted, but Australia has resources that Nigeria and Pakistan lack, so it is understandable for the land Down Under to carry out corrective measures that are politically correct.
My focus on Sydney’s terror siege is lesser than what I’ve gleaned from Pakistan and Nigeria, simply because as a third world country citizen I come from situations that are more real to me than Sydney’s. I see the helplessness we have been reduced to and wonder if more can or should be done to help us. It is now time for help from the first world countries who once reigned us, took our possessions and sought to bring order in our supposed primitive and chaotic world to actually step up their game now.
What saddens me further is the negativity surrounding Islam. The religion that bears a striking resemblance to Christianity and shares its roots with Judaism, is a religion that advocates peace. A few disorientated and disillusioned members of the faith, have misinterpreted the Prophet’s teachings making the few who imbibe the essence of the faith, victims of ignorant Islamophobia in the face of these attacks.
I have only touched on a few salient points in this piece, and believe that most of us are thinking about the same things I do. As citizen journalists, I believe that as news makers we have to raise our voices for and against things that happen to the very people who make the news. I hope to use the platform of the written word to discuss what we can and must do to protect ourselves from descending into the darkeness we have taken so long to ascend from.
Violence does not have to beget violence. It must lead us to question why these senseless acts of violence are justified and push those in power to act on behalf of the helpless. For no matter what, an eye for an eye can never be justified.
A 19-year-old Tibetan woman has become the 135th Tibetan to self immolate in protest of Chinese rule and policies. The woman, known as Tseypey, self immolated and chanted prayers as she burned.
She died on the scene, reportedly, and her body was removed by police. Internet access in the area has been restricted and phone lines blocked, reportedly.
Tseypey self immolated in the center of a town in Ngaba, Amdo, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Monday, as reported by Save Tibet.
The woman hailed from Meruma township. She was the fourth of six children, and was described as “well-behaved, honest and gentle” by monks living in exile in Dharamsala, India.
She had worked as a herder with her family, who have since been taken away by police. It is not known whether the parents are currently detained, but Tibetans have been charged as accessories under Chinese law in the past when relatives and associates have self immolated.
Tseypey was the 135th Tibetan to self immolate within the country in protest of repressive and abusive Chinese policies. She is the third to self immolate this month.
[Video warning. This video is graphic and depicts the remains of a burned human body.]
While attacks from Muslim terrorist outfits in various parts of the world are making headlines, the Boko Haram made sure that their efforts to break the human spirit in Nigeria did not go unnoticed.
Released late on Saturday to journalists, a video landed on the internet just two days after reports of the Boko Haram rounding up helpless elderly captives and killing them in schools in Gwoza made headlines.
The “infidels” were massacred in a long dormitory with bunk beds in a school in Bama, some 40 miles north of Gwoza were the elderly were earlier rounded up.
The horrific NSFW video shows a substantial number of adult men, some of whom are still twitching for life as the gunmen tried to step over the corpses left behind in the aftermath.
The leader of the Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau said,“We have made sure the floor of this hall is turned red with blood, and this is how it is going to be in all future attacks and arrests of infidels. From now, killing, slaughtering, destructions and bombing will be our religious duty anywhere we invade.”
The video also quotes the leader of the Boko Haram saying, “we felt this is not the right time for us to keep prisoners; that is why we will continue to see that the grounds are crimsoned with the flowing blood of prisoners.” in reference to the Prophet’s teachings regarding taking one prisoner.
After falsely promising to spare the lives of residents as long as they were not enemies of the proposed Islamic Caliphate they swore to bring in Nigeria, the Boko Haram have reneged and unleashed a killing spree along the region in the north-eastern Nigeria bordering Cameroon.
The Boko Haram has declared that anyone claiming to be a Muslim is an infidel. The Sunni jihadists that follow Shariah law rose to a notorious prominence after they kidnapped nearly 200 Christian schoolgirls from Chibok.
Dubbed one of 2014 biggest failures, the #bringbackourgirls campaign has done nothing but draw attention to Boko Haram’s heinous crimes which started in 2009. Since the insurgency, schools, children, women, men and the elderly have been murdered mercilessly forcing nearly more than 2 million people to flee from Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
to play the next time. The flashy Nairobi bishop has since maintained that she will battle it out with other aspirants for Nairobi gubernatorial candidate come 2017. Among her opponents will be the flamboyant Nairobi senator, Hon. Mike Sonko and Nairobi businessman Jimnah Mbaru, who have both vowed to ensure she sinks into political oblivion. Indeed someone could be signing her political oblivion certificate by herself.
